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To: general_re
That's fine, but unless and until you bring something a bit more solid to the table than just a set of "why else would they do that?"-type questions, I see no reason to entertain theories suggesting that Pollard is in jail because of someone's bigotry. Those are serious charges, my friend, and they require serious evidence before anyone is going to listen, let alone believe.

The evidence of antisemitism is certainly stronger among those who want to hang him. He was guilty of delivering high level classified information to Israel from his position on an anti-terrorism unit. He enraged enough people in the INTEL community and the Bush Administration that they manipulated or influenced the judge after the plea agreement. He could no longer go to trial or mount a defense.

The problem is that aiding and abetting Pollard in his attempt to make his case into a matter of Jewish solidarity is only going to reinforce that perception. It's time to let it go...

As the German Jews learned to their dismay, it mattered not an iota how loyal they were nor how many Jewish criminal cases they ignored. The pressure on them increased because people wanted to hate Jews. Jonathan Pollard deserves the same justice as his peers, no more and no less. His sentence should not have been padded because he is an American Jew who spied for Israel, nor should people single him out for scorn and ridicule for the same reason. The more one looks at similar cases, the more unfair his sentence appears.

81 posted on 09/08/2003 9:32:25 AM PDT by af_vet_1981
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To: af_vet_1981
He enraged enough people in the INTEL community and the Bush Administration that they manipulated or influenced the judge after the plea agreement.

Considering that this was exactly what Pollard was attempting to do by going to the press, for him to complain about it now smacks of the rankest hypocrisy. Jonathan Pollard opened that particular can of worms all by himself. The fact that it didn't work out quite the way he planned does not cause me to feel a surge of pity for him. Nor does it, I think, among most people.

His sentence should not have been padded because he is an American Jew who spied for Israel, nor should people single him out for scorn and ridicule for the same reason.

Again, you have yet to present anything other than innuendo and speculation to support this contention. Nobody is going to take this charge seriously until that changes - there are plenty of real injustices in the world to worry about without spending time railing against injustices that, so far, appear wholly imaginary.

82 posted on 09/08/2003 9:51:19 AM PDT by general_re (Today is a day for firm decisions! Or is it?)
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